HP iLO 4 Scripting and Command Line Guide

Unsupported Microsoft Windows quote characters:

Support for Windows-specific smart-quotes (“ ” and ‘ ’) as content delimiters in XML is being phased

out. Be sure to replace any smart-quote characters in your script with normal double or single

quotes (" and ').

Specific string

A specific string is one that is required to contain certain characters. In general, you have a choice

of words that are accepted as correct syntax and all other words produce an error.

Boolean string

A Boolean string is a specific string that specifies a yes or no condition. Acceptable Boolean

strings are yes, no, true, false, y, n, t, f, 1, and 0. These strings are not case sensitive.

Response definitions

Every command that is sent to iLO generates a response. The response indicates whether the

command succeeded or failed. Some commands generate additional information. The additional

information appears in execution sequence, provided no errors occurred.

For example:

<RESPONSE

STATUS="0x0001"

MSG="There has been a severe error."/>

• RESPONSE

This tag name indicates that iLO is sending a response to the previous commands back to the

client application to indicate the success or failure of the commands that have been sent to

iLO.

• STATUS

This parameter contains an error number. The number 0x0000 indicates that no error exists.

• MSG

This element contains a message describing the error that happened. If there is no error, the

No error message appears.

RIBCL

This command is used to start and end a RIBCL session. You can use it only once to start a RIBCL

session, and it must be the first command to display in the script. The RIBCL tags are required to

mark the beginning and the end of the RIBCL document.

For example:

</RIBCL>

RIBCL parameters

VERSION is a string that indicates the version of the RIBCL that the client application is expecting

to use. The VERSION string is compared to the version of the RIBCL that is expected, and an error

message is returned if the first number of the string and the version (major version) do not match.

The preferred value for the VERSION parameter is 2.X. For example, if the string is 2.20 and the

expected major version number is 2, no errors message is sent. However, if the VERSION string

is 1.X and the expected version is 2, then the different versions may introduce compatibility issues.

If there is a major version mismatch, the following inform message is sent:

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